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Take as Much Time as You Need
Those of you familiar with San Francisco may have traveled a beautiful seaside stretch of road called the Great Highway, which runs from Ocean Beach…
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Who’s Winning?
Let’s face it, we’re a competitive species. People like to compete in just about everything they do. We’re not psychologists, so we can’t speculate with…
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Rooting Out Software Heresy
For those of you who don’t regularly visit the comments at http://www.journalforums.com/ (and you should), my piece two weeks ago on “Taming C?” generated a…
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Battered and Bedraggled
These are interesting times at Cadence. A bit too interesting. If you read some of the press blips over the last few weeks, it’s over;…
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Tiny Tiny Chips
What do you get when you multiply a normal FPGA by .000000001? Well, those of you that have been reading this publication for awhile may…
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Making More of a Contribution
Peer review is a well-established essential component of the scientific process. For good science, anyway. The system provides a way for new ideas to be…
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Spicing Up Simulation
In yet another example of the ascendance of analog considerations, simulation of analog behavior – whether in outright analog circuits or in the secret analog…
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The Haunting of Fab 51
The wild wind whistles strange through the bright gloom of eternal daylight in the tightly-sealed semiconductor fab. In the power-assured place where progress never pauses…
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Through the Looking Glass
Passing beyond a looking glass has been a useful metaphor for any topsy-turvy, head-spinning, when-will-this-trip-be-over, bizarro-world experience ever since Lewis Carroll bestowed it upon us.…
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Blasting Billions of Bits
The other day, I was killing five minutes between briefings by watching a YouTube video on my iPhone. Right in the middle of the video…